I started my project of getting to know New York City by taking the 7 train to 103 St-Corona Plaza and walking a few blocks to the Louis Armstrong House Museum. You can take a tour of his actual house but I stayed across the street at the really well done visitors center & learned a lot about his life and influence. My favorite single item was a 6-page hand-written letter about living on the block for 29 years. He described the neighborhood kids watch him "ooze" out of his garage in his Cadillac and follow him to the Chinese restaurant, where they asked for so many autographs that his food was cold, & he had to go home where his wife fried up a dagwood sandwich for him.
I never was all that crazy about his music, kinda corny, though I know it's brilliant and foundational, but I sure am crazy about him. What an ambassador for love and fairness.
The neighborhood I walked through was almost entirely Hispanic, & from the shop signs, largely from South America. According to the demographics I looked up, Corona is roughly 75% Hispanic, 10% each Asian & Black, and 5% white.